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White has to play b4 first and only then a4, in order to avoid black blocking with a5

First of all, it should be clear from the beginning which direction the pawn go. I thought the black pawns would go downwards, white pawns upwards.

This could have been used as an example in the chapter "Do Not Hurry" of the book Endgame Strategy by Mikhail Shereshevsky. Having read this book, I might have played 1…a6! in this position, even though I mistakenly thought that 1…K×d5 was winning.

I saw this one quite easily.

Please keep More like this I will support u

Nice change of pace from the puzzles. Not that i dislike the puzzles ofc

Thanks for that. Your end games always LOOK simple but are really challenging.

It's a very instructive study. I felt your "plans for Black" bit missed the most immediate threat. If it were Black to move in the initial position, wouldn't 1. ...g3 draw immediately, because White's pawn would be doomed (unless White played 2. f3, which would immediately lose)? My initial thought was therefore 1. Be2 to control the f3 and g4 squares, but that fails to 1. ...Kf4 and 2. ...g3, and that's when I came to the same conclusion as you - that the Bf1-Bg2 manoeuvre is necessary.

Lovely selection and elucidation. These simple-looking endgame situations bring out a pattern at the end that then guides the initial moves in all variations but non-experts cannot directly visualize the pattern so we have to muddle through the possibilities and then deduce the clinching position where the game can be a win for White instead of a draw. At some point in future it would be nice to have a 10-min summary video of 3 or 5 King pawn ending patterns that have been covered so far.

At 7:35 in the video, Q-c3 isn't mate immediately, black has b2 to block (only legal move, in fact), then Qxb2 mate. Minor clarification.

I don't understand any of this. Ra1+, followed by Rxa7, followed by Re7, blacks king cant get over to protect the pawn, so rook takes pawn next move, with an easy win following.

I think you overcomplicated this. Why Bishop e7? Why not Bishop d6 taking pawn. If king takes Bishop advance Pawn, if not move Bishop to b8 then pawn to a7 and they protect each other. You have all day to take the other pawn with King and then come up to force king away and queen the pawn. Seems faster and easier than the way you did it. But I am a less than average chess player, so I’m sure I am missing something.

My 1500 elo ass : draw take it or leave it

I was wondering what was wrong with taking the black pawn as it moved forward (either directly or en passant), then I realised it lead to a stalemate.

after black plays b5 white could take en passant I presume.

Ba1

I don't even have to see it. The answer is no I would lose of course. My endgames are utter garbo.

Cool puzzle. I figured on Bishop to a1, but I had to count moves from there. I thought at first Kc1 Was The better option, but when I played it out in my head, I saw the problem. So I did solve it even though it wasn't intuitively my first instinct.

Might have been an idea to show what happens if black underpromotes to a knight.

When i played it against the computer he promoted to knight.

Easy. When black does not capture the bishop with the pawn and queens this is a nice variation. 1. Ba1 b5 2. c6 b4 3. c7 b3 4. c8=Q b2 5. Qf5+ Kxa1 6. Qe5 Kb1 7. Qe1# {White mates} 1-0

Got it. But only examined White K to c2 and saw that it wins; did not see that K to c1 is a bad move.

Can i block a channel?

It’s Labor Day and you’re working! Enjoy the day.😊

Very easy!😊

I want to say before watching: at first it's hard to find the best shot for *blacks* :-)

Great video. Thank you!

Lots of ways to win this...🧐

My plan was to go directly after the black pawn and then Queen my pawn, and it worked. I did not see the black kings plan, so very good video!

What software/app do you use for the studies?

I solved it easily but I didn't see that there was a second solution.

It was easy. As we know, Square rule is the only solution. So I tried blocking the king. It worked.

Did you try it by underpromating to a rook?

1.d6 is the oldest trick in pawn endgames and obviously wins. But I spent some time to figure out how 1.f5 Kc5 2.f6 wouldn't win. After a minute or two, I concluded that it absolutely wins as well and I was right. A proper title would be "Can you not win this endgame as white".

Video could've been 2 minutes total to get to the point.

Thank you I guess you are slipping that is the 1st one of your puzzles I have ever solved. If you are average I better go back to checkers

I actually figured one out! Almost immediately. :D Pawn to d6.. Black is forced to take and the pawn will be in the king's way, preventing him from catching the f-pawn. I did not see how starting with the f-pawn could also win.

Very nice! I found the d6 win as you described. I missed the point that with pawns on d5 and f6 the Black king on d6 is blockaded from the e file, and can't take the d-pawn but has to go round via the 8th rank. That gives White time to bring up their king.

Sorry , your guidlines are bad. Why should follow Black your thinkig ? at 2:32 we saw a draw, black will move only on b-Line and white only on d-Line .

What about B e5

Not an endgame study. A theoretical endgame: rook and pawn vs bishop.

End game is a vast subject, full of theory ... Even grand masters , also did mistakes in the endgames!!! Hence i request you to provide us more endgame puzzles, until we become comfortable with all the important endgame positions! Thanks once again for your excellent videos on endgames! ,🙏🙏🙏

swiss cheese, i lost track of all the errors

With your final solution, what if you took one move near the end to move your bishop to H5? The black king is too far away to interfere with the pawn, and you could preserve your bishop. Do I read that wrong?

Good addition to the series of endgame videos. For better grasp of the first middle game position context, showing the moves from the beginning to that first position being analyzed would have helped, adding a few seconds of animation. Also add maybe the move listing and mention the opening variation name.

you talk too much

I like the new type of content, so please make more of these. One suggestion: you should wait a couple of seconds after saying "pause the video" so viewers have a chance to do that. I went for the pause button but you'd already started saying what the next move was before I got there!

K to b 4 ?

I saw the first two moves and the general thought process! Not bad for a Sunday morning.😊

Can you play game with me